A mind-altering adventure through the world of fungi for readers of Robert Macfarlane and Other Minds
Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and a writer. He received a Ph.D.
in Tropical Ecology from Cambridge University for his work on
underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he
was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute. He is a research associate of the Vrije
University, Amsterdam, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi
Foundation and the Society for the Protection of Underground
Networks.
Entangled Life is an international bestseller, winner of the Royal
Society Science Book Prize 2021 and the Wainwright Prize 2021, and
has been nominated for a host of other prizes, including the
British Book Awards Book of the Year 2021 for Narrative Non-Fiction
and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021. Entangled Life was also
featured as Radio 4's Book of the Week and selected as a Book of
the Year in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, New Statesman
and Time, among others. It has been translated into twenty
languages.
After this book, nothing will seem the same again . . . beautifully
written and illustrated . . . dazzling . . . reveals a world that's
both more extraordinary and more delicate than could be
imagined
*Mail on Sunday*
Riveting and surprising at every turn . . . A sensory as well as an
intellectual pleasure
*New Statesman*
Wondrous . . . Humans should consider fungi among the greatest of
earth's marvels
*Time, Books of the Year*
Mind-boggling . . . It's tempting . . . to see fungi as the
biological model for a better world
*Telegraph*
Truly astounding . . . An engrossing, captivating journey
*Spectator*
Gorgeous, intelligent, utterly absorbing . . . it expands our
world, and makes us look up from the page with renewed wonder
*Irish Times*
One of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the
world around you . . . revelatory . . . astounding . . . and
brimming with infectious joy
*HELEN MACDONALD, author of H is for Hawk*
A true masterpiece, a thrilling and fascinating insight into the
living world . . . I hope and trust that it will become an instant
classic
*GEORGE MONBIOT*
Blew my mind . . . Essential reading. Go and get swept up in a new
world
*ANDREA WULF, author of The Invention of Nature*
Astonishing . . . it's impossible to finish this book without
feeling awestruck
*ANDREW MOTION, TLS Books of the Year*
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